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Updating the Global Alert in Public Website WordPress (Emergency Response Team Only)

The global alert is a message that will appear at the top of every page in the public website (www.bcit.ca). This message then links (usually) to the Breaking News page (published with WordPress).

Updating the Breaking News page and adding the Global Alert in WordPress

In WordPress:

  1. Important: Select the “Global Alert and Breaking News” section in the section selector in WordPress.
    • Note: The Breaking News page and Global Alert tool will only be accessible through this Section.
  2. Click on Pages in the WordPress menu.
  3. Edit the Breaking News page to add the relevant details for the current alert and publish your changes.
    Note: You want to do this first because you don’t want to have a global alert linking to a blank page.
  4. Click on Tools > Global Alert in the WordPress menu.
  5. Change the Alert Type from “Disabled” to whatever type of alert makes sense for the current circumstances.
  6. Add a short but clearly descriptive phrase or sentence about the current situation to the Global Alert Message.
  7. The Alert CTA is likely already the link to the Breaking News page – https://www.bcit.ca/breaking-news/ – but if it is not, change it to that.
  8. (Optional) Edit the Alert CTA Label, Start, and End Date/Time fields.
  9. Click the Update button to publish the change.

Removing the Global Alert in WordPress

In the “Global Alert and Breaking News” section in WordPress:

  1. Click on Tools > Global Alert in the WordPress menu.
  2. Change the Alert Type from whatever it is to “Disabled”.
  3. Click the Update button to publish the change.
  4. Click on Pages in the WordPress menu.
  5. Edit the Breaking News page to remove whatever content is there but no longer relevant.

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